DIGITAL Archiving
Turning Physical into Digital
We offer comprehensive services for artists and collectors seeking to safeguard their artistic legacies. Our dedicated team of experts utilizes cutting-edge technology and state-of-the-art equipment to provide top-tier digital archiving solutions, ensuring the preservation of your artwork for generations to come.
In the intricate digital archiving process, we meticulously capture the essence of your original pieces. Our advanced equipment is adept at reproducing your artwork's visual details and nuanced color palette and texture. The result is a series of high-quality digital files that faithfully represent the soul of each piece, maintaining the integrity of your artistic vision.
The significance of digital archiving cannot be emphasized enough. Creating digital replicas of your artwork establishes a timeless safeguard against the original pieces' potential loss, damage, or destruction. This means that even in adverse circumstances, the essence of your artistic expression will endure, ready to inspire and captivate future generations.
Beyond preservation, digital archiving opens doors to a broader audience. Share your artwork with art lovers and collectors worldwide, transcending geographical boundaries. Blazing Editions recognizes the importance of accuracy and attention to detail in digital archiving. Our team collaborates closely with you, ensuring that the digital copies meet and exceed your expectations, capturing the essence and beauty of your original creations.
Whether you're an artist seeking to immortalize your portfolio or a collector looking to archive a valuable collection, Blazing Editions is your trusted partner. Our expertise and resources are dedicated to helping you protect your artwork and ensure it remains a timeless legacy for future generations. Contact us today to discover more about our digital archiving services and embark on a journey to preserve your artwork's enduring brilliance.
Digital Reproduction
There are three ways that we can create a digital file of your original artwork to be used for printing and reproducing. We can photograph the original, scan it from a transparency or a print, or you can supply us with a high-quality digital file. We offer large-format scanning for any artwork size.
SCANNING TRANSPARENCIES
We understand that providing us with the original is not always easy, so we also accept transparencies or high-quality photographic prints. When working with slides, we prefer an 8x10 but can also work with a 4x5. Our Scitex Eversmart Flatbed Scanner produces results equivalent to drum scans.
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Digitally capture artwork at its native original size. Typically have the ability to enlarge from original size.
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File is capture in RAW format for the most flexibility
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We offer color adjustment and editing to match the desired target. We work one-on-one with artists both in our studio and remotely to achieve exact color.
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Digital enhancements can be made per request. We have proprietary software to enhance files for enlargements
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Digital Captures allow files to be enlarges 30% to 300%
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Digital files are stored on & off-site. We also provide cloud storage as well. Files request on-demand.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Digitally capturing the original artwork in our state-of-the-art copy studio: This is the preferred method if you can either bring or ship the original to our Rhode Island studios. Shipping insured art is not as expensive as one might think. We can certainly help you with acquiring cost-effective shipping if you need it. The benefits of having the original are numerous. First and foremost, in the printmaking process, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” If we have the original here while we proof, it expedites the process and helps us to be more exact in matching an original work.
If we do not feel the initial capture is of the quality, we will reshoot it at no cost to you until we are satisfied with it. It also gives us the ability to use special techniques, such as multiple exposures for highlights and shadows, that only a printmaker would fully appreciate. We fully have a digital scan-back on a 4x5 studio camera, a unique digital flat-field lens, and specialized lighting for copy work. A standard capture takes 15 to 20 minutes to expose, yielding a 2GB Raw file.
DIGITAL IMAGE
You can also send us a digital file you may already have. If you send us a file, it is best to send us a "target" (a physical, hard copy print you have approved the colors on) for comparison. This can be the original or any hardcopy output you have made of it. If we do not get a target to match, we will send out an initial proof with minimal correction for you to comment on and work off of.
Please call us before sending us the file and let us know the size and format. If you can, it is advisable to do this before getting the work photographed. It is typical for many professional photographers to shoot too small files, which would be suitable for the web or advertising purposes, but lack the resolution to do high-end, large-scale reproductions. Ideally, we need a file at 300DPI at the final output size. We can interface with your photographer to ensure you get a usable file if you contact us.
BENEFITS
~ 2GB Raw File
Flexibility to perform special lighting techniques to capture & enhance the texture of the painting. Providing more Three Dimensionality to the finished reproduction.
Capture original artwork up to 10x10 feet.
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Many professional photographers lack the necessary equipment to produce this type of file in the field; although they may be outstanding photographers, this is a specialty, so we advise that you try and work with someone who specializes in fine art copy photography.